Nectaring (humour)

[Chris J. Durden]

  Yes, but. The flowering and fruiting tree is giving flowers and fruit.
The nectaring butterfly and fruiting bat are taking from flowers and fruit.
Surely a verbed noun should be accompanied by a vector, or meaning is lost?
......Chris Durden


At 08:27  28/09/99 +0200, you wrote:
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>>I agree.  If a tree can "flower" or be "flowering" then it can "fruit"
>>or be "fruiting".
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>I'm of the opinion that there is no noun that can't be verbed ;-)
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>Dr David Green
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